Microscopics

iDJ magazine this month published their list of the top 100 essential dance records of the decade. Congratulations to Charles Webster whose ‘Born on the 24th of July’ album sits at number two…
 
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This includes the track ‘Forget the Past’ co-written by Charles Webster (Presence, Phurry Phreaks), Sara Jay (Massive Attack) and Mat Jarvis (Gas, [...]

Napster today announced that it’s going MP3, and will be the largest MP3 store with 6 million tracks.

Napster, the pioneer of digital music, today announced the launch of the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store at www.napster.com/store.
Napster’s download store is more than 50 percent larger than any other MP3 store and boasts not only [...]

Pirating, or ’sharing’ is a huge problem, especially to the smaller independent labels. You have to send out promos of your record to press and DJs before it’s released, so how do labels stop pirates from bootlegging and uploading for everyone to download before that release date?
 
Solution, kind of…

Lo;Rise - Observer (High Skies mix) Drop-out [...]

The ‘Gas - Microscopic’ film has just broken through the six figure barrier on YouTube, with 100,000 full views.

View film on YouTube…
The short film is based on the IBM classic mixed with Microscopic, from the (Bob Katz approved) remaster of the Gas 0095 album.
Gas - Microscopic downloads…
High Quality DivX version (190mb)
Quicktime/ iPod version (60mb)
Microscopic - remastered full [...]